Documentation

Stan User’s Guide

The Stan user’s guide provides example models and programming
techniques for coding statistical models in Stan.
It also serves as an example-driven introduction to Bayesian modeling
and inference.
For version 2.18, this is titled Stan User’s Guide.
For versions 2.17 and earlier, this is part of the Stan Reference Manual.

Stan Language Reference Manual

The manual for Stan’s programming language for coding probability models,
inference algorithms for fitting models and making predictions,
and posterior analysis tools for evaluating the results.
This manual applies to all Stan interfaces.

RStan Documentation

PyStan Documentation

Case Studies and Notebooks

Case studies provide longer, more-detailed discussion of various
applications, models, and methodologies. Each case study is written
in knitr or Jupyter notebooks so that the discussion is accompanied
with working code. Case studies written or validated by the Stan
development team can be found at

Tutorials

The Stan development team and many users have contributed tutorials aimed at introducing users to various aspects of statistical modeling with Stan, both
in written and visual formats. These tutorials can be found at